Unicap has an article on the Asus EeePC. "In spring 2007, Asus announced the EeePC, a low cost, small sized mobile computer, which is expected to be available to the public in October 2007. The system is equiped with a 900 Mhz ultra low power Intel CPU, a 7'' LCD monitor, 512 MBytes of RAM and uses flash memory as permanent storage. On the software side, the system comes with a custom version of Xandros Linux preinstalled."
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Member since:2006-03-10
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bornagainpenguin, your comment was interesting for OT reasons, where you mentioned the Win 9x stuff. You seem to know a bit on the subject and my gf's laptop is lumbered with Win ME, which she has no intention of replacing and I do my best to keep in one piece now that MS have abandoned ME. Do you have any good links for helping Win9x systems stay "healthy" past EOL?
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Member since:2005-08-07
Your best bet for Win9x systems would be to learn two addresses:
MSFN's Win9x forum
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showforum=8
Axcel216 / MDGx's Max Speed WinDOwS...:
http://www.mdgx.com/
Together those two sites should help you piece your Girlfriend's laptop back together! The Acel216 site has many of the patches you'll need and the MSFN forums are chock full with more patches tips. More importantly the MSFN forums are where alot of this stuff gets developed!
--bornagainpenguin
PS: To be honest though I'd probably just install Win98SE and then put 98SE2ME on it.. Just be sure you have a good backup tool before beginning, like Acronis or Ghost!
Member since:2006-07-28
EESH! I'd suggest that getting a Win2K GDI driver to run under 98 is all but impossible. I mean, it _might_ be possible (it'd require numerous hacks to the 9x kernel which can be done on 9x by hooking various function pointer tables to make it more or less NT kernel compatible)... however, the real magic would be getting the driver to run at all. Win9X display drivers are a strange amalgam of VXD and a 16bit display driver. Yup, 9x's display drivers are 16bit DLLs. I suspect most deliberately flip to 32bit mode as soon as they can but they have to maintain some 16bit code mostly to be compatible with junk like older versions of Quicktime (which actually patch the display driver code directly... evil!)
Member since:2005-08-07
Notice I specifically said WMD drivers. As heretical as it might seem to you I have had to use Win2000 WDM drivers in my Win98SE install before and have had good results depending on the drivers.
I'm just trying to see if anyone has tried this with the GMA900 drivers on Win98SE?
--bornagainpenguin
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2005-08-07
Or at least I will still want one if they don't keep adjusting the price upward and reducing the specs downward...
Also I wonder how well Win9x would perform on this machine? I imagine if fully patched with the various 'unofficial' update packs and Tihiy's 98Revolutions pack it should look good and be functional at less than half the space Xandros wants!
--bornagainpenguin
PS: I know its the Intel GMA900 which makes the above a pipe dream, but I wonder if anyone's managed to get the Win2000 WDM version of the driver to run on win9x? Oh well, even if Win9x is a dream there's always Ubuntu and OSX86 to play around with!